BIOGRAPHY

Heather Marie Scholl (b. 1985, Portland, OR) is a Philadelphia-based artist and designer addressing issues of race, gender and trauma. She holds a BA in Race, Gender, and Sexuality and an MFA in Fashion and Knitwear Design. Scholl was a 2023 Linda Lee Alter Fellow at DaVinci Art Alliance and 2019-20 fellow with the Leslie-Lohman Museum and a resident at Stove Works (2023) and The James and Janie Washington House (2019). She has been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (2014), CERF+ grant (2021), and the Illuminate the Arts Grant (2022). In 2015, Scholl began work on her series “Whitework,” an exploration into white women’s roles in white supremacy. This led her to co-founding and directing Confront White Womanhood, an anti-racism education initiative for white women (2016-2020) where she held workshops for the Women’s March, Columbia University, and others. In 2021 she founded Daughters of Medusa, a clothing brand centering survivors and sustainable design. She was recently the Program Instructor for the inaugural program, Fashioning the Future Forward with Grant BLVD, a production sewing job training course for women impacted by the criminal justice system. Scholl’s art work has been exhibited at Pen + Brush, Fuller Craft Museum, Rokeby Museum, The Morris Jumel Mansion, and DaVinci Art Alliance, among others. Her work has been written about in Slate, Cosmopolitan, i-D magazine, and BUST.